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Daughter Of Rich GOPer Funding Ayers Ad Is An Obama Supporter
TPM Election Central — ... ads is a financial backer of Barack Obama. Serena Connelly -- the daughter of billionaire Harold Simmons, the sole person bankrolling the ad campaign tying Obama to the former Weatherman -- is a prolific Democratic donor. She $2,300 to Obama, maxing out for the primaries, in two installments in April and May of 2007, according to OpenSecrets.org. She also gave a total of $3,750 to Hillary on various dates throughout 2007. More on this from AccountableAmerica, that new outfit being run by former MoveOn chief Tom Mattzie. ...

Ayers Attack Creator's Daughter Backs Obama
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Tom Matzzie reports on the latest development in Barack Obama Bill Ayers attack ad saga: Irony of ironies. Harold Simmons, the Texas billionaire and McCain fundraiser behind the incendiary ads attacking Senator Barack Obama, is divisive even in his own family. It turns out that at least one of Simmons' daughters, Serena Connolly, is a max-out donor to both Senators Clinton and Obama. She wrote her first check to Senator Obama in the 2nd quarter of 2007. Another Simmons daughter, Lisa Epstein, has donated to Democrats in the ...

Remainders: Her night
Ben Smith's Blog — ... in earnest. Obama takes on Agriprocessors, the kosher meat company in Iowa accused on labor violations. Obama small-town dominance in Iowa? Rangel added to tonight's roster. Calderone conscripts me into flacking. No Biden bounce. A possible Obama Secretary of Defense says McCain has a habit of "losing it." McCain continues to stress his harder rhetorical line on Georgia. Harold Simmons' daughter supports Obama.

The American Dream or Married To The Mob?
Crooks and Liars — ... (although it must hurt Simmons where he lives that his kid donated the max to Obama), I’d say that there is more than enough ammunition in this ...